The SYLVIA actress who is six months pregnant with COLDPLAY singer CHRIS
MARTIN's child was warned off the British hospitals by the AMERICAN PIE singer
after she claimed they were "too old and Victorian".

Yet now the couple are happy to have made plans to have their baby in
Paltrow's adopted home after installing a birth tank into their swanky London
pad.

Paltrow wants to give birth at home - yet plans have been made to go to
the exclusive $1,400 (GBP740)-a-night ST JOHN AND ST ELIZABETH private London
hospital if needed.

The hospital was recommended to her by her showbiz friends Sadie Frost and
Kate Moss, who have all recently given birth there.

The hospital which offers an alternative approach to giving birth,
including being able to listen to whale music whilst floating in a birth pool,
costs around $8,550 (GBP4,500) to give birth in.